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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations have to consider now that distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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